Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, “Who are we?”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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The difference between people and ideas is … only superficial.
~ Richard Rorty
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There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.
~ Richard Rorty
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